Scilla is doing very well and making great improvements, everything was going well until I let her....
FALL OUT OF THE CAR! No your eyes are not deceiving you! While trying to transfer her from the car to her chair, the chair slipped and I tried to catch her but she kept slipping until she hit the ground. I was a nervous wreck and my confidence greatly shaken. (a little background on her why she fell: She does not have her personal chair yet, it should be here in about 2weeks. The chair she has is bits and pieces of other chairs put together and the brakes don't exactly do their job which is why the chair started to move during the middle of our transfer.) ANYWAYS, I called 9-1-1 and the fireman arrived first and once I explained her injury they decided to leave her sitting on the ground with her feet still in the car until the EMS arrived. Once there, their first thought was to pull her by her arms and she and I quickly said "NO, you can't do that, she has a new spinal cord injury and you can't pull her by her arms!" So they thought for a minute and got a back board and laid her down and again thought they were going to grab her arms and again we said "no, you can't pull her arms and she can't move her legs, so finally they got the point."
The EMS got a blanket out of the ambulance and put it underneath her and pulled her the rest of the way onto the backboard that way. So now there was still the problem of how to get her in the chair. The EMS and firemen put the blanket underneath her bottom and back and lifted on the count of three while I pushed the wheelchair closer to them; once we had her on the chair, I put my hands under her butt to pull her back while they lifted her back completely into the chair.
So as you can see it wasn't exactly the kind of day you want to have, but one good thing did happen. While talking to the paramedic and telling of her injury; one of them said "Do you remember me?" and Scilla was like "not really" and he said I was there the day of your injury! Scilla started then to remember that he held her hand on the way to the hospital. He told us how he kept telling her she was going to be okay and that she was not going to die and that she was one lucky lady. So world, I introduce you to Scilla's guardian angel; the paramedic who has been there when she has needed him most, Mr. R.C Page:
